Love is gentled – as it gentles

August 17, 2011

source And I wonder what to do with the fear… as I face the stallion full of fire… ears pressed flat… legs kicking, tail swishing… eyes full of contempt and fear… and wide, and white… and nostrils flaring hot gusts of air. This horse is hellacious and huge. It’s in the training pen. But it […]

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Love knows words outlive bruises

August 16, 2011

source He blasted through the bedroom door… no knocking… barely a turn of the doorknob. When you’re 10 years old and an angry, what seems to be, giant of a man rushes toward you… with fire and fury blazing… and a memory of fists and kicks always fresh in your mind… the fear that strikes […]

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Love says thank you 1,000 times (#’s 494-502)

August 15, 2011

source Here’s a first for a thank you list. This list began as an “I hate” list. Yup – an “I Hate” list. I wondered if taking an “I hate” list… and bringing it before God… and turning it around… if that could be a useful thing. I pretty much hate the hard – and […]

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Love seeks to understand a flinch

August 12, 2011

source We had just moved from Brooklyn New York to St. Louis Missouri – a 5th grade city kid in the suburbs. Third and fourth grade were spent in a Catholic school in Brooklyn. I was “Catholic” only by my mom’s remarriage. I knew nothing of either God or Catholicism – and was an outcast […]

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Love doesn’t hide in shadows

August 11, 2011

source And so yesterday I wrote confidently on breaking wild horse number two. Ahead will be talk of wild horses, and corrals, and posty notes… it’ll make little sense without background… If you are new to the Love War against the negative voices… it began here… and the ponies and posties are explained here…. And […]

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Love tames the wild stallions

August 10, 2011

source Today is day two of breaking the wild horses. This one’s name? Pele, which is Portuguese… for “hide”. And I suddenly realize that as I’m doing this publicly, I’m letting a whole lot of me become visible. For a guy who has never really opened up to anybody – this isn’t easy. It’s easier […]

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Love rounds the final turn and takes the lead

August 9, 2011

source And now for the home stretch in the Love War on the negative voices. All the horses are corralled, a top ten, particularly troublesome mustangs, have been separated – and the top one placed in the training area… and now its interrogation. If you are new to the Love War on the negative voices […]

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